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# How to enroll |
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Application mining pays developers for building decentralized applications |
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(Dapps). Enrolling in app mining also makes your application eligible for |
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rewards. |
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After you enroll, Blockstack verifies your information and your Dapp appears in |
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the list of registered apps. You must enroll by the end of each month to be |
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eligible for the following month. |
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To apply, do the following: |
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1. Integrate Blockstack Auth into your app |
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2. Add your app to <a href="https://app.co/submit target="\_blank">App.co</a>. |
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Make sure you choose Blockstack from the Authentication list on the form. |
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3. Email Blockstack with the domain you used to register for your app. |
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Blockstack will respond via email with a set of verification materials. |
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4. Fill out and return the completed verification materials. |
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Be sure you provide us with the BTC address for receipt of mining and rewards funds. |
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Once your enrollment is received, you appear in the enrollment list. |
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For more information, see the frequetly asked questions [on the App.co site](https://app.co/mining#faq). |
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# Understand app mining |
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Traditionally the term ‘mining’ in cryptocurrency refers to the process of |
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contributing compute resources to the network and earning a reward. On the |
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Blockstack network, however, instead of just “mining” through computation, |
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developers can “mine” by contributing apps to the ecosystem and making |
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applications the community wants. |
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Founders that build apps using Blockstack developer tools like Blockstack Auth |
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get paid each month, in amounts proportional to that month’s app quality |
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ranking. Blockstack PBC, in cooperation with App.co, currently administers the |
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payouts. A set of independent “App Reviewers” determines the monthly ranking |
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during the pilot phase. |
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## How apps are reviewed |
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This section is an outline of the general algorithm and process that is used to |
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rank and reward apps. Blockstack worked with a team of Ph.D. game theorist |
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and economists from Princeton and NYU to put together a ranking algorithm which |
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is fair and resistant to abuse. |
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Blockstack has partnered with two different third-party reviewers, Product Hung |
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and Democracy.earth. These reviewers are independent, and generally rely on |
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their own proprietary data and insights to generate rankings. |
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### Product Hunt |
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Product Hunt is the place to find the best new products in tech. They have a |
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massive trove of user data (upvotes, comments, etc), that they use for ranking. |
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Product Hunt comes up with two different scores for each app — a “community” |
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score and a “team” score. |
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Their community score is determined only by the number of upvotes an app |
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received on Product Hunt, relative to other apps that are registered. For |
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example, if an app got more upvotes than any other app in a cohort, their |
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community score would be 100. If a different app got 60% as many upvotes, they’d |
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get a score of 60. |
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Their team score is determined by internal team members conducting reviews on |
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different aspects of an app. They judge based on a few criteria, like execution, |
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uniqueness, and desirability. Each app gets ranked 1-10 on each criterion, and |
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their final score is the average of each criterion. Finally, this average is |
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multiplied by 10, so the highest score you can get is 100. |
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Once each app has a community and team score, Blockstack converts these scores into |
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_z-scores_, more about z-scores below. |
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### Democracy Earth |
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Democracy Earth is a platform for borderless peer-to-peer democracy. They’ve |
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built a platform that anyone can use to gather votes in a trust-less, |
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decentralized way. |
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Democracy Earth has built a platform for Stacks token holders to vote on how |
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apps should be ranked. Each token holder gets a certain number of votes, and |
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they can distribute those votes however they want. It’s possible to give all of |
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your votes to a single app, and you can also “downvote” an app with one of your |
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votes. |
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After a voting period, each app has a certain amount of upvotes and downvotes. |
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First, Blockstack calculates the percentage of total votes that are upvotes. If |
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you got 90 upvotes and 10 downvotes, you’d get a “likability score” of 90. |
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Secondly, Blockstack calculates a “traction score”, which ranks how many total |
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votes (including downvotes) an app received, relative to other apps. |
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## Reaching the final scores |
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Once the reviewer-partners generate reviews, we have 4 raw scores for each app, each between 0 and 100: |
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* Product Hunt community score |
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* Product Hunt team score |
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* Democracy Earth likability score |
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* Democracy Earth traction score |
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First Blockstack's determine a ‘z-score’ for each ranking category community, |
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team, likability, and traction. This is a statistical technique to account for |
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different distributions of scores within categories. Second, Blockstack computes |
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the average and standard deviation of each category. Finally, for each app’s |
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score in that category, Blockstack determines how many standard deviations it is |
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away from the average score in that category. |
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For example, let’s say a category has an average score of 60, with a standard |
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deviation of 15. A score of 90 would get a z-score of 2, because it’s 2 standard |
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deviations higher than the average. |
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Once each app has a calculated a z-score in every category, the average of those |
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4 z-scores results in a final number. A higher number is better than a lower |
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one, and so apps are ranked from highest to lowest. |
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## Determining how much an app is paid |
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For each app mining cohort, there is determined a “pot” of total earnings that will |
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get paid to apps. For the Alpha run, Blockstack paid a total of $25,000 USD. Starting in |
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December, Blockstack will pay $100,000 USD and the awards will be paid out in Bitcoin. |
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The top app gets paid 20% of the total pot. So, for a pot of $100k, the top app |
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receives $20,000 USD. The next app gets paid 20% of the remaining pot. The |
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remaining pot is $80k, and 20% of that is $16,000. This process continues until |
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every app has been paid. |
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Here is a chart that visualizes the decay in rewards, depending on rank: |
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This first release of App Mining is uses our first version of our ranking and |
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payout mechanism. Blockstack has taken care to be thoughtful and fair, but things may |
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change as we learn more and get feedback from the community. Please let us know |
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what you think by commenting below or emailing us at <hello@app.co>! |
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